Today is Saturday. Jason goes to the zoo with his friends. He 1 his new shirt and nice shoes. Then he 2 goodbye to his parents and goes to the bus station. He 3 his friends there, They 4 the zoo at 10 o'clock. The zoo is 5 from Wednesday to Sunday. The price(价格）for 6 student is 20 yuan. Jason forgets to take any 7 with him. His fiends 8 him, so he can go into the zoo. They spend 2 hours 9 in the zoo. There they see a lot of10, such as tigers, elephants and monkeys. They learn a lot about animals. They have a good time.
Many people like to watch TV. Watching TV is one of the most important activities of the day, TV brings the outside closer to people's homes. Some people say the world is smaller than before because of TV.
What's going on in the other countries? How do people live in places faraway? Is there a good sports game somewhere? What's the life like in the deepest part of the sea?
If you want to answer these and other kinds of questions, just turn on the TV, Turn it on and watch. You can see a lot and learn a lot. Of course, people can also learn through reading or listening to the radio. But with TV they can learn better and more easily. Why? Because they can hear and watch, too.
TV helps to open our eyes. TV also helps to open our minds(思想) . TV often gives us new ideas. We learn newer and better ways of doing something.
Mars is the fourth planet (行星) from the Sun. Scientists are now watching it. And now three little spacecrafts (宇宙飞船) are studying it. They are taking pictures. Three more are traveling around in the sky, high above the Mars. All the six are working to find out the planet's past. Did anything ever live on the Mars? All the living things can't live without on the Mars? All the living things can't live without water. Is there any water on the Mars? On September 29th, scientists had big news. One spacecraft named Phoenix found snow high in the sky on the Mars. Snow comes from water. And Phoenix also found ice before. But they can't find any signs of life. Scientists want to explore (探索) more later. In 2009, space scientists plan to send a large rover (火星车) called the Mars Science Laboratory.
Someday scientists hope to send a robot to get rocks (岩石) and return them to the Earth. People could study the rocks, and learn more about the planet. Can people land on the Mars? No one knows. Before people land on it, machines can do the exploring work.
